Eric Weiner Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
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A life is not a waste of time
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When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.
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I create homes that feel like a home - it could be a palace or a mansion - but each one has a comfortable feeling.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.
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Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.